FEATURED STORY:How to get your entire company on board with Privileged Access Management

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September 24th, 2013

Secret Server is a powerful, flexible tool which can help your organization meet a variety of compliance mandates, such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA and more. In this article we are going to review several ways you can utilize Secret Server to maintain compliance by securely managing your privileged account credentials. Centralizing Your Sensitive Information Before…

September 17th, 2013

In this week’s webinar we will be diving into the integration of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Secret Server. Since the software integration in 2011, users have been securing their credentials through Secret Server and remote connections using Remote Desktop Manager after several client requests. Since then, administrators have been able to use both…

September 9th, 2013

When developing a workflow to manage shared credentials, it’s important to take into account certain environmental factors that may cache credentials on their own. These factors can decrease security around shared credentials. Here, we’ll focus on securing your web browsers through group policy. This blog will walk you through these steps: Determine the extent of…

September 3rd, 2013

In our last post we discussed importing secrets manually into Secret Server using our Migration Tool and built in CSV and XML import. This week we are going review how to automatically import credentials into Secret Server. Discovery in Secret Server Discovery is a major feature in Secret Server with two main functions: Scan your…

August 28th, 2013

After installing Secret Server and thinking through your Folder and Permission structure, the next step is to import information into Secret Server. Secret Server provides multiple tools to quickly import information into Secret Server, whether you are currently using sticky notes, Excel spreadsheets or a personal password tool such as KeePass. Secret Server can also automatically…

July 9th, 2013

When first adding Secrets to your Secret Server account, one of your questions might be, “What should I name my Secrets?” This is a great question and one that we recommend thinking about for any new Secret Server customer. Secret names should be descriptive, but should not reveal any sensitive data. An option for Administrators…

June 28th, 2013

An important part of account security is choosing a strong password to be used to protect the account. The biggest challenge for most users is designing a strong password – one that contains at least eight characters consisting of a mix of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. It can be tedious and time…

June 14th, 2013

Secret Server can integrate with any web ticketing system. This allows you to tie specific Secret views to an item in your existing ticketing system. It does so by first validating that the ticket number given to Secret Server matches the pattern of your ticketing system. Secret Server will then use the ticket number to…

May 31st, 2013

In Part One of this two-part series we discussed setting custom Roles inside of Secret Server. In this section we will discuss the three ways to set Permissions on Secrets within Secret Server. Roles give a user the ability to perform actions inside Secret Server, whereas Permissions dictate the level of control a user has…

May 10th, 2013

Secret Server uses Roles and Permissions to control access to various capabilities within the system. In this two part blog post we will review how to set up customized roles and permissions to meet your company’s security policy. Roles in Secret Server control what a user is allowed to do in the tool. Secret Server…